CITY BASICS

From it's conception, Cybertown has been set up to grow with the input of its residents! The Founding Fathers will help the residents to build the community according to the basic Constitution, the rest is up to you and others to make it grow.

We basically offer the basic infrastructure and will listen to your ideas and wishes to provide what you need as fast as we possibly can...sometimes it will take a while...sometimes it will be very fast.

How can you become part of the City Planning?

Well, first you have to be a member(immigrated).

There are various ways you can become involved in the process of building this community by becoming part of the political strata. It works as follows:

THE FOUNDER

The following is a basic explanation of the functions of the Founder.

The Founder (Hawk) is one of the two original Cybertown creators and founders who is directly involved with the creation and expansion of the community.

The Founder liaises with the community via the City Council.

The primary functions of the Founder are:

1) Setting the Community Policies and social behavior Guidelines in the form of the Constitution and other issues.

2) Setting the Community content guidelines including all multimedia elements - text, graphics, VR, audio, video, technology etc.

3) Liaising with the City Council regarding:

The above includes new policies and other social elements, new buildings, new multimedia elements (text, graphics, VR, audio, video, technology etc.). Note: In order to maintain stylistic integrity, no new elements (particularly graphics, VR, city sections, audio, video etc.). may be introduced into Cybertown without first being proposed to and approved by the Founder.

a) THE MAYOR - He runs the community and liaises with the Founder and co-ordinates the activities of the City Council. He also handles PR functions such as press conferences in the community, heading up community planning meetings and emergency and other meetings of the Council. He is responsible for seeing that goals set by the Founder are achieved via strategic plans implemented by the City Council. He has veto power in times of deadlock over voting issues. His position is (or will be) an elected position but such election will of course be subject to approval of the owners.

 b) THE CITY COUNCIL - Runs the strategic plans and proposes new ones to handle specific areas. Each City Council member has a specific area of the community that he or she heads up - such as Security, Town Guides etc. Each Colony Leader is also on the Council. The City Council also proposes and votes on new laws based on the Constitution and appoints new Council Members and co-ordinates the activities of the various town Leaders.

c) CITY GUIDES - Helping visitors and members - this includes such functions as Community Guides who help by answering questions, helping them find things in the community, giving tours of Cybertown, helping them build homes, manning the message boards, hosting chat sessions and helping with any problems.

d) WORLD BUILDERS - Helping expand and update the community - this includes such things as building new areas, buildings, attractions, objects - including furniture and avatars - and features to add to the community, helping promote the community, repairing and maintaining the community etc.

e) MAGAZINE STAFF - Acting as an information liaison between the Founder - and the City Council - and the community - this includes such things as providing information and announcements to the community about events, guidelines, news, running the community newspaper, creating a newsletter, letting the community know about Cybertown appearances in the media and letting the Founder get needed information from the community.

f) SECURITY OFFICERS - Maintaining order in the community - this includes such things as checking into the rooms areas and ensuring that people follow the guidelines regarding no profanity and disruptive behaviour and no offensive images in buildings etc. This includes Security Offices being Cybercops, as necessary.

g) EMPLOYMENT CHIEF - Responsible for allocating and filling job positions in the community.

h) CLUB OWNERS - Helping members get to know each other and bringing together members with similar interests - includes such things as organizing and running special-interest Clubs with message boards and chat discussion groups

i) EVENT ICs - Includes such things as creating community events and get-togethers, games, competitions, awards for best houses and other created objects.

Other duties: NEIGHBORHOOD AND BLOCK LEADERS (and their DEPUTIES) - They are responsible for activating new neighborhoods with those responsible (in discussion with their Colony Leader) and checking the Colonies with all those responsible for the neighborhoods and blocks. Those responsible for neighborhoods: Can activate new blocks within their neighborhood and check those responsible for blocks and everything in their neighborhood. Those responsible for blocks: Can activate new properties within their block and check everything in their blocks. Can check all posted personal images for a property and can accept or deny those images. An important task is to keep the properties clean and to support all members within their block.

Summary:

It's your place and you will be responsible for what it is and what it becomes. In the past, VR attempts at community have often been somewhat boring and static with little to actually do. This is why Cybertown is built upon a whole social and economic structure where there are things to actually do in town, besides just chatting. See the Economy section for more information on the many jobs available in Cybertown and also go to the Employment Office to see the jobs currently available.

You can also get involved in helping expand and update the community - this includes such things as building new areas, buildings, attractions, objects - including furniture and avatars in the next release - and features to add to the community, helping promote the community, repairing and maintaining the community etc.

You can also become a Security Chief and help in maintaining order in the community.

You could even get involved in politics by being elected to the City Council. As the community grows there will be many more new things to do and have fun with!